This Is How Mayakovsky Began

Overview

Based on the autobiographical book "Ya -sam" (I-myself) by Vladimir Mayakovsky the leading Russian Futurist poet of the beginning of the 20th century. He was born in 1893, into a Russian Cossack family in the Transcaucasian kingdom of Georgia, then part of Russian Empire. There he spent his childhood and boyhood attending a grammar school in Kutaisi. Mayakovsky moved to Moscow at the age of 14, after his father's death. He became a poet, an artist, an actor, a writer/director and public speaker.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

August 24, 1959

Original language

Georgian

Spoken languages

Georgian

Countries

Soviet Union

Production

Georgia-Film

Cast

Nina Shaternikova,Lazare Kazaishvili,Lyudvig Zakrzhevskiy,Igor Vladimirov,Kira Andronikashvili,Konstantin Müfke,Mikheil Kvarelashvili,Zurab Laperadze,Guram Tsereteli,Irine Magalashviliand 9 more

Director

Konstantine Pipinashvili

Writer

Karlo Gogodze,Lev Kassil,Konstantine Pipinashvili

Producer

Vakhtang Oziashvili

Cinematography

Feliks Vysotsky

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0249796